Brilliant Quote by Rick Riordan

Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as…

— Evan Thomas

An epic subject requires a writer of epic skill and scope, and we have a perfect pairing in Cleopatra and Stacy Schiff. Absorbing and…

— Jon Meacham

“A capable, clear-eyed sovereign, she knew how to build a fleet, suppress an insurrection, control a currency, alleviate a famine. An eminent Roman general…

— Stacy Schiff

“…often women aren’t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she was incredibly…

— Bettany Hughes

I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.

— Elizabeth Taylor

“It is no surprise that the only woman in antiquity who could be the subject of a full-length biography is Cleopatra. Yet, unlike Alexander,…

— Sarah B. Pomeroy

We're talking about, essentially, the Roman historians, who wrote Cleopatra into the story mostly so that they could talk about the rise of Rome.…

— Stacy Schiff

Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [...]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power, yet both…

— Robert Greene

The interesting thing about Cleopatra is that she is such a shape-shifter. I mean through history we've all molded her to our times and…

— Stacy Schiff

I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit, clarity, and…

— Tracy Kidder

Indeed, it is measure of how little we know about Cleopatra that the only images of her are either the coins she struck, bearing…

— Michael Korda

Cleopatra was exhausting to play, but also completely exhilarating. She creates her own energy.

— Harriet Walter